Adultery, money, family fortunes, secret and shameful hobbies… What do we hide from others? What are we hiding from ourselves? Our October series sets out to meet people who have neglected to tell their loved ones everything, and sometimes also their own conscience.
Gwendoline*, 32, hates lies. It's visceral, and haunting. The slightest secrecy or the smallest unsaid thing can “drive her crazy”. “I like when everything is absolutely clear, square, limpid. Unusual behavior immediately strikes me as suspicious.” No need to look very far to find the cause of his “trauma”. At the end of the 90s, Gwendoline was not yet 6 years old when her “mythical, liar and manipulator” father made her the accomplice of his adultery. Then, once her parents had separated, he forced her to keep quiet about her new life as a couple, for five long years. Gifted at silence, she will also keep quiet about her stepmother's shenanigans and moral harassment. Today, it is her that her father has voluntarily “ghosted” for almost ten years. He also hides his existence from the child of his second union, a fifteen-year-old half-brother whom Gwendoline has never met. So that the latter knows nothing of this thousand sheets of little betrayals and…
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